BREAKING: Nerman Museum’s namesake dies at 97

Jerry Nerman, the namesake of the college’s Nerman Museum for Contemporary Art, has died after a battle with pneumonia. He was 97. According to KCUR, Nerman and his wife, Margaret, contributed $1.5 million for the art museum to be built on campus in 2007.

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